The food policy at Nordfyns Folk High School

The Food Policy of Nordfyn’s Folk High School
The overall objectives about the food policy are:

To create and support healthy eating habits for students, participants and employees in order to improve health and wellness
To prevent future food related illnesses
To promote the working performance for students, participants and employees through more energy and better concentration

The points of reference are the 8 advices of healthy food to remind one of a proper balance between food and physical activities.
The 8 food advices are:

Eat fruit and vegetables – 6 a day
Eat fish and fish spread – several times a week
Eat potatoes, rice or pasta and coarse bread every day
Go easy on sugar – particularly soft drinks, sweets and cakes
Go easy on fat – particularly from dairy products and meat
Eat a varied diet and keep your standard weight
Quench your thirst with water
Do physical exercise – at least 30 minutes a day

Raw materials

The food must be fresh, well prepared and nutritious
The food should preferably be made from unprocessed raw materials and seasonal fruit and vegetables. We aim to avoid fully or partly pre-prepared food
We focus on encouraging students to eat fruit, vegetables and fish and to reduce consumption of fat, particularly the saturated fat.
It will always be possible to put together a healthy meal. Less nutritious food will be limited and kept for special occasions.

The daily offers in the dining hall:

To ensure variation we serve poultry, pork, beef, fish and vegetarian dishes at least once a week
A big fresh salad bar is available
Freshly baked coarse bread every day
As little fat as possible is used
Liquid vegetable oil replaces margarine and butter
Meat and dairy products have a low contents of fat

We serve dietary food and food according to ethnic background